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Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach. What numbers groan for sad admission there! Young.

A mingling of different things; admixture. Glanvill.

Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.

Admonisher. [Obs.]

The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.

The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.

One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.

Adopted. [Obs.]

paid to God; the act of addressing as a god. The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. Farmer.

Adornment. [Obs.]

Impregnation by external contact, without intromission.

A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation.

Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious. "Adscititious evidence." Bowring. -- Ad`sci*ti"tious*ly, adv.

Additional signification. [R.] Tooke.

d what is merited. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation Shak.

The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott.

A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing. Elegant adumbrations of sacred truth. Bp. Horsley.

A uniting; union. Jer. Taylor.

Cauterization. Buchanan.